Saturday, Day 7

I received a Surprise Me DVD and two journals from Terry Esau today. Earlier this week I had inquired about ordering these. Terry surprised me then with a very personal return phone call and e-mail directly from him. As I received the materials today and previewed them, my anticipation is growing about sharing our surprises tomorrow among the New Life church family.

I received a phone call from Dennis today, who needed a small favor. It has been quite awhile since we spoke. After I granted the favor, I told him that I wanted to catch up on his life, face-to-face, sometime soon.

We worked around the yard today, prepping it for Victoria's graduation party which is now only 6 days away.

I struggled with my attitude twice today. I don't really even want to write these out, but I was surprised at the depth of my anger. In each situation, I was attempting to be generous. In each situation, the other persons were somewhat inconsiderate. Each of these people are brothers in Christ. One the one hand, this gave me rationale for my anger (ie. should not they be considerate toward a brother in Christ?). On the other hand, I want God's love and forgiveness to flow freely from my heart (love does not even notice when others wrong you). God, it looks as though I have a lot more to learn about what authentic generosity really means.